Back to Market Analysis home The outsourcing space is facing two factors heading into 2013. The first is the macro. The space is at a critical juncture with price declines taking place, but contained to specific verticals (capital markets). If the macro remains stable, then the problem is contained, but if it deteriorates we could [...]

Admit it. We all loved getting emails on our Blackberries when mobility first burst on the scene. And back in the day (maybe four years ago), most of us thought of our smartphones as portable computer Mini Me’s, giving us things like mobile banking, mCommerce and a means to book a reservation or check for [...]

Before cloud, mobility was in its infancy—a means of obtaining email, calendar and contacts on the go. People who relied on desktop computers for communication were unchained. For salespeople, this was awesome. But, for the rest of us, the business apps we needed required too much processing power to travel with us. Then, along came [...]

Back to Market Analysis home  Wipro reported IT Services results in line with expectations, but guidance fell short of estimates. Similar to Infosys, Wipro is caught in the perfect storm of facing organizational changes and a weakening demand backdrop. The sector decline has reached the stage of pricing discounts, which appear relegated to the areas [...]

Today’s business enterprise is in a state of continuous change—the pressure to optimize performance while lowering costs is enormous. The real-time expectations of the ‘now’ economy is no longer limited to manufacturing and shipping but is driven by information services, an increasingly mobile workforce and time-sensitive legislation. This means that quick response, transparency and real-time [...]

Sweeping change is difficult for any organization. But in an industry such as insurance whose operations are tethered to a complicated aggregation of legacy systems, will the organization’s ability to adapt and embrace cloud-based technology be especially challenging? Cloud-based products represent the industry’s greatest opportunity to move the dial forward. Implementation of private or public [...]

16th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards – Best Transition: Teradyne and HCL Technologies “Both parties’ commitment to support each other’s business goals, underpinned with relationship transparency and flexibility were the cornerstones of success.” Chuck Ciali, CIO, Teradyne Awards Definition: Transitions by definition are tough. Here the buyer and provider worked together to overcome anticipated and unanticipated [...]

Fast access to meaningful, real-time information is critical to running a successful business, but today’s CEO dashboards fall short. Most are generic, out-of-the-box solutions, created by vendors who don’t understand the companies’ businesses or the type of information each specific CEO really needs. In a world where consumers can get personalized information pushed to their [...]

Wipro Voice: A Discussion with Deepak Jain, Senior Vice President and Head of TIS “You can see computers everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, Economist The CEO wants to know how to transform IT from a cost center to a game changer. The CIO wants to run IT like a business. The [...]

Applications have personalities? Yes, they do, according to HP Distinguished Technologist, E.G. Nadhan. Nadhan is the Lead Technologist for Global Strategic Capabilities within HP and the Chief Architect for HP’s Applications Process and Tools Framework. Nadhan explains that as HP helps its customers manage their applications, it is important to help the IT executives categorize [...]